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Chapter 9
There were two sets of hands on Hanson and they were dragging him to his feet. The movement bringing an involuntary groan across his fever cracked lips. He couldn't feel his wrists and fingers they were so cold. His legs were numb so he leaned heavily onto both people who were dragging him through the night. He tried to lift his legs but to no avail, he could not seem to make them work. He was so achy and exhausted. His arms were draped across two separate sets of shoulders, one tall… one short. He could feel the soft delicate hands of a woman on his left and the hard muscular hands of a man on his right. There were voices lost in the fog of his agony pressing to get past his semi conscious haze. Through the torture of each movement he could hear a voice in the distance reassuring him that he would be ok. Another voice more harsh and abrasive told the soft gentle voice to be quiet. It was an irritated and almost annoyed at the person the soothing peaceful voice belonged to. Hanson felt himself be lifted across a threshold into warmth, total warmth when his legs completely gave out and he fell cataleptic to the floor.
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"Get me some water now!" A female voice cut through Hanson's semi conscious thoughts. She had a commanding voice, one who was in charge and responsible.
"Get it yourself." The voice of defiance came. Hanson felt the brush of air as the body of the commanding voice stood up and moved away. He heard arguing a few steps away. Hanson wanted to sit up but his body just wouldn't cooperate with him. He felt the pain in his side as he tried to lean forward. He gripped his stomach and let out a muffled cry the pain was intense, it shredded through every fiber in his stomach. He arched his back as footsteps rushed to his side and pressed his back down to the soft comforter on the floor.
"Please don't move Tom… you're bleeding and you have a terrible fever." Hanson was loosing it. He couldn't even remember the face the voice belonged to.
"W-Who…" Hanson fumbled to find the words to even ask a question. The only thing he could concentrate on was the blinding pain he felt as his body continued to warm up. All across his body droplets of perspiration beaded and ran down his ever weakening frame.
"Tommy… it's me… its Lexi." She ran a hand across his forehead wiping the warm sticky liquid from him with a cool damp cloth. "You need to try and drink this." She slid her hand under the officer's neck and helped him to lift his head. Tom Hanson felt the cool of the metal cup brush against his parched lips as they parted to allow the fluid to flow freely down his throat. It had no sooner his stomach and Hanson threw it back up. Hanson coughed harshly sitting up fighting the young woman who tried to lay him back down. Once his body quit fighting him he started to try and relax. Gently Lexi wiped the officer's face and chest off.
"Why are you wasting time with this? Were gonna use him for one thing and he's history." Darren hissed as he stood up from the chair. He had watched his young girlfriend tending the officer as if he was something important to her and he was sick of watching. He wanted out of this place. It was confining and old. She had done nothing but defy him causing him to have to discipline her and the worthless pig. Darren was about to snap when he saw her try and give him some more water. "That's it!" Darren exploded. He hastily moved over to where Lexi was. She was paying too much attention to Tom Hanson and not enough to him.
"Get up! That's enough…"
"Darren let me go!" Lexi fought the man gripping her arm tighter. He had caused her spill the water that Tom Hanson so desperately needed to help fight the infection that coursed mercilessly through him. The cup fell pouring the contents all over Hanson and the blanket he lay on in front of the fireplace. Tom tried to draw himself into a protective ball as Darren and Lexi moved away.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" Lexi demanded. She fuming as Darren gripped her arm tighter. She winced as he tugged her body in towards his own.
"Listen baby; let's get the hell out of here. We have out plans to think about." Darren's free hand snaked across Lexi's back and down the waist of her jeans gliding across her backside.
"No... Get off of me!" She struggled to shove the bigger man away from her. Angrily he shoved her smaller body against the wall with his hand secured around her throat. She gasped loudly as he squeezed lightly. The grip of his hand and the slightest squeeze was enough to indicate to her that he could and would hurt her badly.
"We're gonna get out of here… you and me…" Darren kissed her cheek between each phrase like a greedy child would devour sweets behind his mothers back. "You're not going to fight with me… or the next time… I'll fuck the cop really good." With his final words he grabbed her leg lifting up and around his narrow waist while he greedily continued to kiss her neck.
"Please… Darren… don't do this…" Lexi trembled beneath his body, tears streaming down her face. She pushed and shoved trying desperately to heave the much bigger man from her. This only seemed to ignite the flares of excitement in Darren as he thrust his muscular frame harder into hers. "No… Darren… please… no…"
"Let her go!" The voice was a gravely near whisper.
Darren stopped letting Lexi's smaller body fall like a ragdoll to the floor. Her tear stained face ravaged with pain as she landed with a echoing thump. He squinted his ice blue eyes as he approached the officer. Hanson was leaning heavily on the wall grasping the swollen tissue of his stomach with his other hand. Darren stormed over to the young office violently propelling him against the wall. Hanson struggled to inhale a breath only to be shoved again.
"You know what cop… you should mind your own business."
Lexi took a moment to recover before she realized what was going on. She saw Darren slam the young officer into the wall for the second time. She watched the look of misery spread across Hanson's face. She gathered her courage and ran for the bigger man.
Darren drew back his fist as he prepared to lay it into Hanson's face. Lexi took a deep breath as she reached up to take hold of the mans arm.
"Darren… h-honey… please… You don't want to hurt him." She smiled as the words struggled to come to her lips. "Come on baby… lets go see what we can do to calm your nerves." Lexi's hands shook as she took the fist and one at a time pealed back his fingers and placed her delicate hand in his. She reached up and placed her other hand on the bigger mans chest as she positioned herself between Hanson and Darren. Darren looked smugly at Hanson who could hardly hold his head in an upright position.
"You lose cop." Darren growled as he grabbed Lexi by the arm pulling her away from Tom Hanson and into the bedroom. Lexi let out a yelp as the force of the man holding onto her and pulling her was painful. Hanson felt his knees start to buckle as he caught sight of the once young and innocent Lexi George being manhandled and drug through the bedroom door. Hanson lost consciousness as he fell to the floor in a messy heap just as the door slammed shut on the bedroom.
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"Look Darren, honey… it's going to look real bad if we get stopped and theirs a dead cop in the trunk of our car." Tom could hear the distant voice of Lexi George as she pleaded with Darren about. He could only assume that she was talking about Hanson, after all, he was the only cop in the room.
"So what do you want me to do?" Darren retorted.
"Let's let him go." She stated. At that point she could hear Hanson starting to move around by the fireplace. She slowly walked over to the man who lay on his back. Beads of sweat glistened above his brow.
"Yeah… he's gonna go get help. In case you haven't noticed yet, he's not in any condition to help himself." Darren stated pointing at the officer as the young girl helped him to swallow a sip of water. "Worthless cop…" he muttered to himself.
"Pikes Point." Lexi stated turning her head to glance at the man behind her. We can leave him at Pikes Point. It's hiking season and there is bound to be some tourist there. Besides it's just off the main road and if a hiker doesn't see him a driver surly will. They'll find him and then were off the hook." She stated in a matter of fact tone.
"Whatever, I just want to be out of here before noon." Darren spat. He stood up and walked back to the bedroom. She knew he was looking for his bottle. Fortunately for them it was nearly empty. Lexi smiled to herself as Hanson opened his eyes and looked directly at her. She gently pushed his hair out of his eyes as she tried to help him to eat a couple bites out of a bowl. He owed her his life and she just saved him again. Now, how the hell was he going to tell someone… anyone where he was going to be?
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